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Fallows & Associates

Carol Fallows, Martin Fallows
ABN: 57 776 135 100
9 Riley Street, North Sydney NSW 2060
Tel/fax: 9957 3445
Mob: 0419 496 970
Email: carolfallows@pacific.net.au;
martinfallows@pacific.net.au
Website: www.carolfallows.com.au

Experience:From the days of hot metal presses, typesetters and galleys to digital printing, computer publishing programs and pdfs, Carol and Martin Fallows have worked constantly in publishing. They established and ran a magazine and book publishing house for 18 years and have been freelance since 1999.

Magazine editing: Managing editor/publisher national consumer magazines including Australia’s Parents; Pregnancy; Gardens & Backyards; Slimming, Health & Nutrition. Contract magazines: Coles Baby magazines, Coles Supermarkets (HardieGrant); Coles Baby supermarket pamphlets (Adair Integrated).

Website content management: www.tangoaustralia.com.au, www.travelchoice.com.au, www.givingandliving.com.au, www.carolfallows.com.au, www.warbrides.com.au, www.havingababy.net.au

Website factsheets: www.essentialbaby.com.au

Books: Carol is the author of Having a Baby. The Essential Australian Guide to Pregnancy and Birth (2nd ed. 2005, 1st ed. 1997, Random House); Love & War. Stories of War Brides from the Great War to Vietnam (Louis Braille Audio, 2003; Bantam 2002); Parents When-Not-To-Worry Book (Transworld 2001); The Australian Baby & Child Care Handbook (Penguin, 1994, 1998).

Contract writing: Historical Women (Millenium, 2007), War. Australian Memories (Murdoch Books, 2005), Baby & Toddler Meals (Murdoch Books, 2005), A Commonsense Guide for Australian Parents (Murdoch, 2004), The Parenting Guides, Australian Women’s Weekly Home Library (4 pub.2003, 4 pub. 2000); Anatomica. The Complete Home Medical Reference, heading list and major contributors (Global, 2000); promotional material: Omo, Dirt is Good (Hausmann, 2005), Kellogg’s Get Up & Grow (Hausmann Communications, 2000).

Public relations: major client: Australian Tango Championships 2005, 2006, 2007.

Qualifications: 50 years+ combined experience in publishing. Carol: BA (Macq); Associate ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association).

Computer capability: Microsoft Office – advanced skills in Microsoft Word including formatting skills Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Joomla Content Management System, Macromedia Contribute Content Management.

Services offered: Publishing: Project management for publishers and self-publishers.

Editorial: editing; editorial planning and management of magazines, books, newsletters; writing, research.

Websites: creation, content management or training in content management, design or redesign.

Type of material: Self help and non-fiction, magazines, newsletters, website copy, PR material.

Subject specialities: Autobiography/memoir, biography, birth, children, cookery, gardening, health, history, medicine for consumers, parenting, pregnancy, renovating/building, tango (Argentinian), travel.

Special skills: Consumer orientation. Project creation and management. Commissioning writers, illustrators, photographers.